1. History of Film FROM 1830 TO TODAY

2. 1927  Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic.  The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is founded.  The Jazz Singer is the first widely screened feature film with talking sequences interspersed into an otherwise silent film.  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.

3. 1928  The first Oxford English Dictionary is published.  Bubble gum is invented.  Mickey Mouse makes his screen debut in the short cartoon film Plane Crazy.  The Lights of New York is the first all- talking film, and the first Warner Bros. gangster film.

4. 1929  The stock market crashes; the Great Depression begins.  Car radios are introduced.  The first Academy Awards ceremony is held.  Dorothy Arzner directs The Wild Party, about “Jazz Age” youth.

5. 1930  Sliced bread is first available.  Josef Stalin begins collective farming in the Soviet Union.  Pluto is discovered and designated a planet.  Silent Star Greta Garbo successfully graduates to “talkies” in Anna Christie.

6. 1931*  Al Capone is imprisoned for income tax evasion.  The Empire State Building is completed.  Pritz Lang directs the suspense thriller M, starring Peter Lorre.  Bela Lugosi stars in the horror film Dracula.

7. 1932*  Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president of the U.S.  Air Conditioning is invented.  The Lindbergh's’ baby is kidnapped.  Walt Disney shoots Flowers and Trees in the new three-strip Technicolor process.* youtube

8. 1933*  King Kong 2005  Naomi Watts  Jack Black  Adrien Brody  Thomas Kretschmann  Colin Hanks  Jamie Bell  Andy Serkis  King Kong 1933  Starring:  Fay Rey  Bruce Cabot  Robert Armstrong

9. 1933*

10. 1934  The Dust Bowl.  The outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are killed in an ambush.  The first cheeseburger is created.  Leni Riefenstahl directs the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will.

11. 1935  Germany issues the anti-jewish Nuremberg laws.  Social Security is enacted in the United States.  Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.  Rouben Mamoulian’s Becky Sharp is the first film shot in three-strip Technicolor.  The Museum of Modern Art Film Library opens.

12. 1936  Hoover Dam is completed.  King Edward VIII abdicates the British throne for “the woman I love”, American Wallis Warfield Simpson.  The Cinemathque Francaise, one of the world’s greatest film archives, is founded.  Dorothy Arzner directs Craig’s Wife.

13. 1937*  The Golden Gate Bridge is opened.  Japan invades China.  Amelia Earhart vanishes during a flight.  The Trail of the Lonesome Pine becomes the first Technicolor film shot entirely on location.  Disney creates the first feature- length animated cartoon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

14. 1938  Nazi Germany takes over Austria without firing a shot.  Georges Melies dies.  “The Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht) in Germany. November 9, 1938 Night  Sergei Eisenstein directs the epic Alexander Nevsky.

15. 1939  WWII begins in Europe.  The first commercial flight over the Atlantic.  Jean Renoir directs his masterpiece comedy of manners, Rules of the Game.

16. 1939 cont.  Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Ninotchka, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, and Dark Victory are all released in one of Hollywood’s peak years